New collective agreement for University of Toronto Faculty Association

The University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) and the administration at the University of Toronto have reached a two-year agreement. The agreement includes competitive wage increases and extensive benefit improvements in areas such as vision, dental, hearing aids, paramedical, and mental health benefits. In addition, UTFA’s agreement includes improvements in maternity, parental, and adoption leave EI top ups, as well as paid gender affirmation leave for members engaged in treatments and procedures related to gender affirmation. Finally, UTFA achieved increases in Days for Librarians to be used per existing practice.